Country faces moral, financial ruin because of social programs (Letter)

Harold W. Beu, a retired Unitarian Universalist minister, argues in a guest column in the Gazette that, “the government can indeed force religious people to do things that go against their faith when the public good is being challenged.” He wants taxpayers to pay for contraception as a health care service.

But one person’s public view is another person’s public bad, and God help us if we surrender to Mr. Beu’s view of the public good.

No doubts Mr. Beu is a devout believer in the separation of church and state and would cry bloody murder if religious folks tried to influence government in any way. But, it’s perfectly okay with him if government interferes with the lives, beliefs and institutions of religious folks.

This may come as a surprise to Mr. Beu, but Hitler, Stalin, and many of history’s secular tyrants had a similar view and interfered aplenty in the lives of religious folks and their institutions, wiping out many of them.

Mr. Beu, notwithstanding all his theological education and admiration for a priest who described himself as an atheist, has no moral problem joining that coven at the declining Gazette, who for years have been beating the drums for taxpayer-paid abortion, taxpayer-paid contraception, taxpayer-paid assisted suicide, etc.

Our country is facing moral and financial bankruptcy and a teetering economy simply because people like Mr. Beu think it’s okay for the government to lavish millions domestically in every direction, even if the taxpayer money is spent on programs that antagonize the moral beliefs of millions of people.

Also, that same government, under both the Republicans and Democrats, has incurred trillions of dollars in debt by engaging in prolonged, unnecessary foreign wars in which thousands of our brave soldiers have been killed or injured, hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians have been killed or injured, and countries left in ruins. Ron Paul is right on target with that score.